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Samaritan Health Clinic in Cape Coral destroyed by Hurricane Ian
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Hurricane Ian has decimated health care clinics and left hospitals crippled in Southwest Florida. Samaritan Health and Wellness along Cape Coral Parkway in Cape Coral sees over 10,000 uninsured and underinsured patients. Dr. Sue Hook founded and runs the facility and discovered it destroyed by Ian. The roof on top of …
Another tough hurricane season? Predictions indicate a rough ride
South Louisiana has barely had time to catch its breath. But here we go again. Warnings are mounting that the state could be in for another rough ride this hurricane season. Weather experts are pointing to factors such as particularly warm waters that could lead, once again, to an above-average storm year — perhaps even …
President Biden to receive hurricane briefing as White House faces resistance on infrastructure bill
“President Biden must do better,” Heba Mohammad, a Palestinian American staffer and digital organizing director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin during the 2020 cycle, said in a statement to The Washington Post. “A ceasefire in this latest bombing campaign is welcomed, but Palestinian suffering continues because there has not been a cessation in Israel’s …
Delaware County Company Develops ‘The Hurricane,’ Device Using UVC Technology To Kill Coronavirus – CBS Philly
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — There’s a new weapon in the fight against COVID-19. A Delaware County company has developed a device called “The Hurricane” to kill the virus. This futuristic device looks like something out of Ghostbusters, but it’s actually a new product from a local company that can effectively eradicate the coronavirus and other harmful …
Busy, Record-Breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Officially Ends – NBC 6 South Florida
Monday marks the official end of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which proved historic and noteworthy in a variety of ways. Considering that an average hurricane season produces 12 named storms, 2020 produced 30. This was only the second time the Greek alphabet was utilized to complete a season. The storm season of 2005 was …
Record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season draws to an end
The 2020 Hurricane season officially ends on Monday, but there is still a disturbance in the tropics being watched by the National Hurricane Center. 100 hundred miles northeast of the southeast Bahamas the disturbance is producing disorganized cloudiness and showers, but strong upper-level winds and a cold front on Tuesday are expected to limit the …
Tracking the Tropics: Record-breaking 2020 hurricane season drawing to a close
by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff Posted: Nov 25, 2020 / 12:48 PM CST / Updated: Nov 25, 2020 / 01:06 PM CST TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — We’re less than a week away from the official end of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and it’s safe to say everybody is ready to say “good …
Iota, Now a Hurricane, Is Season’s 30th Named Storm
Tropical Storm Iota strengthened into a hurricane early Sunday as it continued to carve a path through the Caribbean Sea, days after becoming the 30th named storm in the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm, which was moving west-northwest at nine miles per hour as of 10 a.m. Sunday, was about 335 miles east …
Scientists link record-breaking hurricane season to climate crisis | Climate change
Paddling in a canoe through the flood waters left by Hurricane Eta in his rural village near the north coast of Honduras, Adán Herrera took stock of the damage. “Compared with Hurricane Mitch, this caused more damage because the water rose so fast,” said Herrera, 33, a subsistence farmer who is living on top of …
Tropical Storm Iota forecast to hit storm-ravaged Central America as a major hurricane early next week
Iota, which formed Friday at sea, was centered in the Caribbean about 495 miles east-southeast of the Nicaragua-Honduras border with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph as of 10 a.m. ET Saturday, the US National Hurricane Center said. It is forecast to rapidly strengthen over the next 24 hours. Iota is expected to continue heading …
Boone County commissioners ‘disavow’ fellow commissioner’s comments on health department